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2 Chronicles 25:6

He also hired one hundred thousand mighty warriors from Israel for one hundred talents of silver.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Ephraim;   Thompson Chain Reference - Mercenaries;   War-Peace;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies;   Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Amaziah;   Joash or Jehoash;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Amaziah;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Joktheel;   Salt, Valley of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Alliance;   Army;   Chronicles, I;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Amaziah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - War;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chronicles, Books of;   Hire;   Judah, Kingdom of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then for 7,500 pounds of silver he hired one hundred thousand valiant warriors from Israel.
Hebrew Names Version
He hired also one hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Yisra'el for one hundred talents of silver.
King James Version
He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.
English Standard Version
He hired also 100,000 mighty men of valor from Israel for 100 talents of silver.
New Century Version
Amaziah also hired one hundred thousand soldiers from Israel for about seventy-five hundred pounds of silver.
New English Translation
He hired 100,000 Israelite warriors for a hundred talents of silver.
Amplified Bible
He also hired 100,000 brave warriors from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
New American Standard Bible
He also hired a hundred thousand valiant warriors from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
World English Bible
He hired also one hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He hyred also an hundreth thousand valiant men out of Israel for an hundreth talents of siluer.
Legacy Standard Bible
And he hired also 100,000 mighty men of valor out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver.
Berean Standard Bible
He also hired 100,000 mighty warriors from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
Contemporary English Version
Amaziah also paid almost four tons of silver to hire one hundred thousand soldiers from Israel.
Complete Jewish Bible
He also hired 100,000 strong, brave men from Isra'el for three-and-a-third tons of silver.
Darby Translation
He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
Easy-to-Read Version
Amaziah also hired 100,000 soldiers from Israel. He paid 3 3/4 tons of silver to hire these soldiers.
George Lamsa Translation
He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valour from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
Good News Translation
In addition, he hired 100,000 soldiers from Israel at a cost of about four tons of silver.
Lexham English Bible
And he hired from Israel one hundred thousand strong, mighty warriors for one hundred talents.
Literal Translation
And he hired a hundred thousand mighty men of war out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And out of Israel appoynted he an hundreth thousande stronge men of warre for an hundreth talentes of siluer.
American Standard Version
He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
Bible in Basic English
And for a hundred talents of silver, he got a hundred thousand fighting-men from Israel.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He hired also an hundred thousande strong fighting men out of Israel for an hundred talentes of siluer.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
King James Version (1611)
Hee hired also an hundred thousand mightie men of valour, out of Israel, for an hundred talents of siluer.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Also he hired of Israel a hundred thousand mighty men for a hundred talents of silver.
English Revised Version
He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also for mede he hiride of Israel an hundrid thousynde of stronge men, for an hundrid talentis of siluer, that thei schulden fiyte ayens the sones of Edom.
Update Bible Version
He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
Webster's Bible Translation
He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
New King James Version
He also hired one hundred thousand mighty men of valor from Israel for one hundred talents of silver.
New Living Translation
He also paid about 7,500 pounds of silver to hire 100,000 experienced fighting men from Israel.
New Life Bible
He also asked for the help of 100,000 powerful soldiers from Israel and paid them with silver weighing as much as 100 men.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he hired out of Israel, a hundred thousand heroes of valour, for a hundred talents of silver.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He hired also of Israel a hundred thousand valiant men, for a hundred talents of silver.
Revised Standard Version
He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
Young's Literal Translation
And he hireth out of Israel a hundred thousand mighty ones of valour, with a hundred talents of silver;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He hired also 100,000 valiant warriors out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver.

Contextual Overview

1 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. 2 He did what was right in the sight of the Lord , yet not with a true heart. 3 As soon as the royal power was firmly in his hand he killed his servants who had murdered his father the king. 4 But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the law, in the book of Moses, where the Lord commanded, "The parents shall not be put to death for the children, or the children be put to death for the parents; but all shall be put to death for their own sins." 5 Amaziah assembled the people of Judah, and set them by ancestral houses under commanders of the thousands and of the hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He mustered those twenty years old and upward, and found that they were three hundred thousand picked troops fit for war, able to handle spear and shield. 6 He also hired one hundred thousand mighty warriors from Israel for one hundred talents of silver. 7 But a man of God came to him and said, "O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel—all these Ephraimites. 8 Rather, go by yourself and act; be strong in battle, or God will fling you down before the enemy; for God has power to help or to overthrow." 9 Amaziah said to the man of God, "But what shall we do about the hundred talents that I have given to the army of Israel?" The man of God answered, "The Lord is able to give you much more than this." 10 Then Amaziah discharged the army that had come to him from Ephraim, letting them go home again. But they became very angry with Judah, and returned home in fierce anger.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

an hundred talents of silver: Estimating the shekel at 2s. 6d., and the talent, being 3,000 shekels - see Exodus 38:25, Exodus 38:26, at 375, one hundred talents would amount to 37,500.; which, divided among 100,000 men, quotes only 7s. 6d.; hence we may suppose, that this was only an earnest of their pay, or that they expected to be enriched by the plunder of the Edomites.

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 19:6 - a thousand

Cross-References

Genesis 16:3
So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave-girl, and gave her to her husband Abram as a wife.
Genesis 21:14
So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
Genesis 25:1
Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.
Genesis 25:2
She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
Genesis 25:11
After the death of Abraham God blessed his son Isaac. And Isaac settled at Beer-lahai-roi.
Genesis 25:13
These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, named in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael; and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
Genesis 25:14
Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
Genesis 25:15
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
Genesis 30:4
So she gave him her maid Bilhah as a wife; and Jacob went in to her.
Genesis 30:9
When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her maid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He hired also one hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel,.... The ten tribes, judging his own army not sufficient for his expedition against the Edomites he was meditating:

for one hundred talents of silver; which amounted to 35,300 pounds sterling, and according to Beckius e were about five florins and a half to each soldier.

e Not. in Targum in loc.


 
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